Special Air Service
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The S.A.S. or Special Air Service, is a Special Operations Organisation of the British Army. It was founded in 1941 to attack behind the German line of defence in North Africa, in World War II.
The SAS is a very secret organisation, its members often do not tell anyone except close family that they are in it. The British Ministry of Defence (MOD) rarely speaks of the SAS and mission details are never released until after a set amount of time.
The Badge of the organisation is a knife with wings, by the motto: Who Dares Wins.
Current SAS roles include:
- Gathering intelligence behind enemy lines.
- Destroying targets far behind enemy lines.
- Protecting The Royal Family, and important government members.
- Training special forces of other nations.
- Performing counter-terrorism operations.
The SAS is thought of all over the world as one of the best, if not the best Special Operations organisations. This is mainly because of the intense training they are put through. The hardest part of this is intense interrogation (questioning while under torture) which the trainees must go through.
The SAS is respected worldwide and used to train many other Special Forces Units.
